Power aware OpenFlow switch extension for energy saving in data centers

Author

Tran Hoang Vu ; Pham Ngoc Nam ; Tran Thanh ; Le Thai Hung ; Le Anh Van ; Nguyen Duy Linh ; To Duc Thien ; Nguyen Huu Thanh

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Telecommun., Hanoi Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hanoi, Vietnam

fYear

2012

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

313

Abstract

Data centers play an important role in our daily activities. The increasing demand for data centers in both scale and size has led to huge energy consumption. The cost and environmental impact of data centers increases due to large amounts of carbon emissions. One solution to this problem is to intelligently control the power consumption of switches used in data centers. This paper proposes an extension to OpenFlow switches to support different power saving modes. The extension includes defining new messages in Openflow standard and designing an OpenFlow Switch Controller (OSC) that is able to turn on/off switches and disable/enable ports. To prove the soundness of the proposed extension, the OSC has been used to control the NetFPGA based OpenFlow switches in the ECODANE framework. The results presented in this paper can aslo be used by the OpenFlow compliant switches manufacturer or by power aware research community.

Keywords

computer centres; power consumption; routing protocols; telecommunication power supplies; ECODANE framework; NetFPGA; OpenFlow switch controller; Openflow standard; carbon emissions; data centers; energy consumption; energy saving; power aware OpenFlow switch extension; power aware research community; power consumption; power saving modes; Switches; Data Center Networks; NetFPGA; Openflow switch; power aware;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hanoi

ISSN

2162-1020

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4351-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATC.2012.6404282

Filename

6404282